Republican News Item. VOL. iX. NO. 13. ('This Is the Place < To Buy Your Jewelry * s C Nothing in Town to Compare WithS ( the Quality that We are Giving / J You for the Low Price Asked. N C Quality and moderate prices mnkes a force that\ 3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r I of this section. Many years here in business, always 3 Swithafull line of yoods above suspicion; chosen C r with a care and judgment commensurate with its . \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ 112 our store a sale place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q S.teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. ( > RETTENBURY, > <, DUSHORE, PA. The COLE No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OK/ WOOD. HE A TERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and Genera! Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AM SPORT, PA. Special Stocking Sale* We'll crowd the storking section this week with such values as these. One ease of Ladies' Fast, Black full-fashioned Hose. These are not the shapeless kind, but arc knit to lit and the best quality you ever bought for 1 'Jcents. l)necase of Childrens' Fast Black Kihhcd Hose of extra value. AN e can lit out the boys and girls with better stockings than you have been in the habit of buying for 1-.'. cents. MEW FLANNELETTE In handsome Persian designs and fancy stripes and "igures, either light or dark colors, specially suitable for dressing sacqiies or waists, at 11, 121-2, and is cents. OUTiNG FLANNELS We are showing some new styles and extra good qualities in out ing flannels at N, '•>, I<> and 11 cents. TABLE LINEN We have several (litres ol two yard wide lull bleached Table Linen that was $1.25 a yard: the napkin:; lo match this cloth have all been Hold, We have reduced the cloth to Si.uo a Yard. LADIES' WRAPPERS We've got several prides of neat styles and perfect fitting Wrappers. You wouldn't cut and make such garments as these for the prices that we quote them—at 75C tO sl.o=l WHITE BEL) SPREADS. We oiler Iw> special numbers iii white Crochet Spreads that are very cheap. They are extra large si.-.e- and neat Marseilles patterns that are neatly hemmed and ready tor use. l'ri/c #I.OO and 1.-"> We have a fine line of better qualities at reasonable prices. WASH GOODS We have just received another case of ''Mandarin Silk." The first lot only last ed n few davs. This fabric is thirty inches w ide and soli Itnisli, at Sc a yard. WOOL Dl! HNS tiiii)|)S. We are closing out a small lot of colored Wool Dress (loodsthat have been selling at 51 Ic and 75c. They are 40 lo 50 inches wide. While the lot lasts the price will he d'.l cents. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1904. UNCLE SAM AS AN INSPECTOR. TTncle Sam: "None of these Democratic life preservers for me. I want uo Slocum disasters on the old ship of state." NEW JERSEY ROADS. HOW THEIR IMPROVEMENT HAS BEN EFITED THE GARDEN STATE. Crop» ((ulekly Marketed and Sold at Uood Protltn—K«rui> la tireat D«- maud—Tlte State Aid Law I'M Huad luai»roveiu«ut. Robert A. Meeker, the state super visor of roads iu New Jersey, says that the good roads In that state have aided iu materially Increasing its popula tion. Commuters who formerly found It necessary to live near a railroad sta tion now In many cases live as far as live miles distant. The schools have been strikingly benefited iu the increase and regularity of attendance, aud in many other ways the luterests of the state have been advanced. Though forty-second iu area. New Jersey has, according to Mr. Meeker, twice as many miles of good roads as any state lu the Unlou. That Is something for which the state may well be proud. It is said that in one neighborhood itlone, t'uiou county, the improvement of the roads has changed values so greatly that men who a few years ago were struggling farmers, with earnings so scant that it was difficult to make two ends meet, are now not only well to do, but absolutely rich. They can sell their crops at good profits, they can grow more profitable crops, they can get these crops quickly and cheaply to market, and their lands, for which at low prices It was formerly almost im possible to find purchasers, are now In demand at prices which, compared with the old order of things, seem fabulous anil the mere mention of which sug gests a most unaccustomed condition of opulence. Mr. Sleeker recently described the plan and uiethod of road Improvement under the state aid law as follows: "The New Jersey state aid lnw is first and foremost a home rule or local option measure. The people along the line of a certain road, wishing to have the same Improved, prepare a petition, requesting the board of chosen free holders of their county or the govern ing officers of the smaller political di visions Im Improve the highway iu front of their respective properties. The governing body before whom this petition is presented considers it, in con section with others of the same nature, and. if It hus not sufficient fluids to build all, selects those which lu its Judgment are most important. "After i>o doing it instructs Its •ngtneer to prepare plans, profiles, BOAD IN UNION COUNTY, N. I. cross sections aud specifications. When these have been prepared the engineer presents them before the local author ities for their approval or rejection. If they receive the stamp of local ap proval they are tlieu forwarded to the office of the state commissioner of pub lic roads, who then proceeds to satisfy himself, by personal examination of the papers placed before liiiu. and also of the road which it is proposed to Im prove, whether the same is of suffi cient general Importance to be improv ed in accordance with the plans and 1 aneclflcatious submitted to him. It the proposed improvement and the method of making the same meet with his approbation he signifies it by In dorsing upon the specifications his ap proval thereof. This indorsement car ries with it the guarantee that the state will pay one-third of the actual cost of construction. "We have often been asked by peo pie Interested in good roads whether state aid lius proved beneficial to the people or not and wh:it our experience has taught us of the practical value of the same. Our reply is that state aid for road Improvement has proved to be oue of the graudeet conceptions and in its euactuieut one of the wisest, best and most beneficent acts that have ever been placed upon the statute book of the lawmakers of any commonwealth." In length of road built and contract ed for under tke state aid law New Jersey takes the lead, with WW miles. That was the record at the time the report of the commissioner of public roads for 1903 dosed. New York fol lowed. with 484 miles: Massachusetts, with 480; Connecticut, with 4f>4. GOOD ROADS. Koternor Haehelder of New Hamp shire <i ii Highway lui|iroveiaeat. New Hampshire is one of the states which are making rapid strides in the improvement of her totals. Governor Bachcldcr of that state and he is also' an officer of the national grange—ls a very enthusiastic advocate of road improvement. In a recent address he •a id: "The development and prosperity of any state or nation depend In some degree upon the transportation facili ties provided, and such facilities in clude not only our rivers and harbors and our great railway and steamboat companies, but also the highways over which all our product* and all our peo ple are transported. "The Important matter now before the friends of good roads is to arouse the people to a realization of their re sponsibility in securing favorable state and national legislation on the subject. Another Important matter is the con struction of roads adapted to the needs of truvel over them. Much harm has come to the good roads movement in some sections of the country through the advocacy of more expensive roads than the resources of the people would warrant and demand. Costly stone roads are economical upon portions of our highways, but we must uot over look the fact that there Is H vast mile age of roads that could be permanently improved by the Judicious expendi ture of a comparatively small mm of money per mile. We should give due prominence to this fact in considering the matter from u state or national standpoint. "As an official of the national grange 1 desire to say a word for the farmers of the country in regard to national aid for rond building. The farmers have been loyal to the Interests of the nation in every emergency in the paat. They have contributed their full share in proportion to their wealth to the revenues for the support of the gov ernment. The ablest statesmen and most successful business men contrib uting to the development and prosper ity of the country point to the farms as their birthplace. When our coun try lias been In danger the farmer boys have responded nobly to her defense. We have uncomplainingly contributed our share to the enormous expendi tures of the national government for river and harbor Improvements, the construction of canals and the erection of costly buildings in our great and we do not regret it. "We now ask In the name of Justice that national aid be granted for the improvement of highways. Thla In j volves the establishment «112 policy, but the extension of the former UIU Wa aak tliu Soval aunoort of I I those who have been benefited by our contribution to other public matters to which I lave referred. I believe the farmers of the nation, representing more than a third of our population, i (ire practically unanimous in favor of such a movement and will give it their unqualified support." United and Firm. The Democrats had hoped that they would receive something like support for their proposition to tinker with the tariff from the Republicans of lowa. They had hoped that a platform would be adopted by the convention at Des Moines which could be used In an at tempt to create a division of sentiment on the tariff issue lu the Republican party. They have been bitterly disap pointed. The Republican party of the whole country stands united aud firm for the maintenance of the principle of protection for American Industries.—* Albany Journal. It has never yet been definitely determined to what extent lightning rods are a protection to the building: to which they are attached, but the consensus of the best opinion is that they do protect, and as the average annual tire loss in the I'nited States i5|4,.'153,000, builders and property holders usually find it wise to invest in the necessary protective conduct ors. A committee of the National Fire Protective Association, a body closely affiliated with the insurance interests, has been making a study of the problem, and in a preliminary report makes some interesting sug gestions as to the proportion to roof area and the kind of roof. One point which the committee makes which will be new to many persons is that the lightning rod should nev er be insulated, but should he fasten ed to the roof by clamps of the same kind of metal. It is also stated that the conductors should never be run through iron pipes, this injunction reversing what used to be a very common practice. Figures collected by the committee show that barns are the buildings most frequently struck by lightning, dwellings [and churches coining next in order given, and the rejiort quotes the following as the order in which various kinds of trees are susceptible to lightning: oaks 100; elms 77; pines 33; tires 10; tir tret* in general "_'7; beeches 2. For the information of veterans who are anxious to understand the operation of the order granting pen sions tit certain ages, the following will be found of interest: "The order entitles a claimant who has passed the age of sixty-two years to a month; after sixty-five years, to $8; after sixty-eight years, to #l2, and after seventy, to *l-. This ruling modifies the former practice of the office, fixing the minimun and max imum at sixty-five and seventy five years respectively. I n carrying out this order, official red tape has been done away with. If a veteran who served ninety days or more, in the Civil War, and was honorably discharged, and who litis passed the age of sixty-two, will write to the commissioner of pensions, there will be supplied to him an applicant blank and the necessary instructions. The services of an attorney are not required, the only expense is the payment of the notary's fee. Vet erans must understand, however, that they cannot draw two pensions. If they are now drawing a pen sion #0 or #lO a month under the general law, asunder the act of June 27, IH9O, and have reached tin age which, '.under the order, entitles them to an increase, they can have ; it by making the necessary applica ! tion but they must relinquish the pension they have been drawing up !to the time their uaines are placed j on the new roll. Regarding the proposed division lof the Diocese of Central I'ennsyl | vania of the Protestant Kpiscopal j ehurt h, the secretary has compiled i a statement at the request of Bishop | Talbot. The new diocese will lie composed of Jlarrisburg and Will iamsport and deaeonries, embracing the following counties: ! Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan, Cen ter, t'nion, Northumberland, Mon , tour, Snyder, Juniata, Cumberland. Perry, Dauphin, Fulton, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, York, aud Lan caster. The strength of the diocese • will be greater than many others land will have seventy parishes. 75 TS. PER YEAR Sudden Death o! Howard W. Meylert. Howard W. Meylert formerly of this place, and brother of K. W. Meylert Esq., died at hjs homo in Susanville, California, Ivlphday.Sppt. 5, after a short illnessf. ,Of>tyj>hoid fever He leaves a wlf l and one child. Mr. Meylert left Laporte in the early eighties and has made bis home in California since that time. He will he remembered by all our older citizens. A more complete sketch of his life will appear in a future issue of the News Item. Another One on the New Railroad. Binghamton, Sept. 3.—During a conversation here last evening, C. K. Harvey, chief engineer of the proposed Hinghamtou and Southern railroad saitl: "If my career is not cut short I will build the road surveyed six years ago under the name of the Binghamton and Southern. If Con sul General Charles M. Dickenson had not preferred the social and po litical distinction given him by his appointment as United States Consul General to Turkey, at Constantino ple, this road would he now an ac complished fact, and would be pay ing dividends to the stockholders. The preliminary survey parallelled the Philadelphia and Heading road for four miles from Williamsport to Moutoursville, crossed the Loyal sock creek and ran up the creek to Hillsgrove, Forksville, Dushore and to Binghamton. This survey made the route 11 <> miles long. It crossed the state line about two miles above Vestal and runs through the Choeo nut valley. The grade of this was one foot in one hundred, a lighter maximum grade than either the Eire, Lackawanna or New York Central. Mr. Dickinson's withdraw al did not kill the enterprise. It only postponed it and now it will be built." The State Hoard of Health hopes that before winter smallpox will be entirely stamped out in this state. No cases have appeared in either Philadelphia or Pittsburg, where it had been epidemic for more than a year, since .June last, and the great diminution of cases in the last two months in all other parts of the state appears to indicate an early termina tion of the scourge. Statistics of the State Board show that the total number of cases in the state in July was ninety-four, and two deaths. During August nineteen cases and one death were reported. In June there were sixty cases and nine deaths, and in the previous month :27l cases and twenty-one deaths. The greater number of cases oceur ing in July were confined to Schuyl kill county, which had fifty-two cases and two deaths; Lebonancame next with lit cases; Dauphin ami Northumberland counties with 5 each; Indianna with 8, aud the re maining cases were scattered in Al leghany, (ambria, Carbon, Dela ware, Jefferson, Lycoming, Mont gomery, Sullivan and Tioga coun ties. The attaches of the Department of Public Instruction have prepared the warrants for the distribution of the school fund to the various school dis tricts which have made their reports to the department. The warrants will be sent out on September Ist- Two hundred districts in the state have not yet sent a report to the de partment and warrants for these dis tricts have not been made out be cause the law provides that a report lie made from a district before its apportionment of the fund is made. I'p to this time I Hi) of our township high schools in the state have made a report to the department and war. rants for these have deen prepared. There are a number of schools which have not been heard from, and under the provision of the act if the reports are not received at the department l>y September Ist, those schools neg lecting to make a report will lose their appropriation for this year. Amos B. Sprout Dead. Amos B. Sprout, of Picture llocks, died Wednesday of last at 'the age of TS years. He was one of the best known citizens of his town and was a deacon of the Itapiist church.
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